I’m not sure is it a response to the wildly popular VoIP phone calls Google has introduced recently, but whatever the reason is – we salute Truphone‘s move to slash calling rates. The new rates are now as low as 2.1 cents per minute, meaning that calls to some of the most popular destinations such…
Archives for 2010
Video: Charging the Nokia N8 with a hamster
I’m not sure is this a part of Nokia’s official N8 campaign or not but I love it, nonetheless. Sure, some hamster-lovin’ folks could find this insulting and semi-legal, but bare in mind that hamster would run anyways — whether charging the phone or not. Considering the N8 is still not widely available I would…
CarLocate.com launches mobile website
New and used vehicle search website CarLocate.com is going mobile. However, they’re not launching a native app as you would expect, but a mobile website which is, let’s say, the “old way of doing things.” To be fair with this move they’ll be reaching more users as no smartphone is required to access the service.…
CoPilot Live now with ActiveTraffic, real-time traffic information
ALK Technologies is launching ActiveTraffic, a real-time traffic service that integrates traffic flow information with CoPilot Live GPS navigation app. Developed in co-operation with INRIX (which we covered in the past), the CoPilot Live ActiveTraffic “intelligently calculates” the best route to avoid traffic congestion and provide an accurate estimated time of arrival (ETA). The software…
Gameloft unveils H1 2010 results: 11% sales growth, net profit up 140%!
We don’t usually post financial results of the gaming publishers but somehow Gameloft is an exception. The reason is simple – they point us to interesting trends which we (or that’s just me) think are worth sharing. First the boring numbers – the company achieved consolidated sales of €66.6 million for H1 2010, up by…
eMarketer: U.S. mobile content revenues to top $1.54 billion this year, $3.53 billion in 2014
According to a new report from eMarketer, the U.S. mobile content revenues will reach $1.54 billion this year, driven by the growing consumer appetite for mobile games, music and video. The research company estimates further growth of the market due to increasing number of smartphone users and tablet devices available on the market. On that…
India’s SMS GupShup hits 35 million users, 3.5 million communities; Expands into the Philippines
SMS GupShup, which is India’s largest mobile social network we talked about in the past, announced that they have crossed 35 million users in India, making them more popular than Google Orkut, Facebook and Twitter. As a result of this growth, the company doubled its message processing in just six months. All those users are…
‘Mix Tape’ iPhone Case Brings Back 80’s Flavor
Time for a little late night iPhone case lovin’. If you grew up in the 80’s like I did, chances are you had a few ‘mix tapes’ laying around. You’d pop them into your cassette player, or maybe if you were really lucky, into your Sony Walkman. There was no such thing as a BlackBerry…
Sticker shock: Samsung Galaxy Tab to retail for an astonishingly high €699 ($895)?
Lesson number one: when you release a hot, new device like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, you really should set the pricing details before the big announcement and include this information in the first official press release. Failure to disclose the pricing will lead to rampant speculation and the reputation of your device may be tarnished…
Twitter: mobile usage dominated by iPhone and BlackBerry users, not Android
Twitter has realized that mobile is the place to be and has been pushing out mobile clients to all the major platforms over the course of this year. Twitter launched its Twitter for BlackBerry app as a private beta in February and rolled out the official app in July. Unlike the other mobile platforms which were developed by Twitter independently (Android) or…